How to incease my SAT score by 200 points?

Question

I am going to be a senior in high school. I have taken the SAT twice and the first time I got 1540 and second 1670. My GPA is 3.9/4.00. I want to go to a good school in the Northeast. I am planning on majoring in Accounting. What schools are good and how can i raise my score?

Answer 1

a university is good. raise your score by studying.

Answer 2

You have to define "good" for yourself. If you want to be very technical about it, go ahead and look at Princeton Review or US News college rankings (http://www.usnews.com/sections/rankings/... but that won't tell you which colleges are "good" for you.

If you're really stuck, you can go through college match surveys on collegeboard (http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/se... or Princeton Review (princetonreview.com). But those tend to either give you too many colleges to choose from or none at all.

Tips (copied from another question I answered) :

I found that the SAT writing is the easiest to improve. The first practice test I took, I got a 560 in the writing; by the time I took the actual SAT, I ended up with a 750.

Study basic grammar rules, once you know what shows up on the SAT, you can pick out the usual errors in a second (just make sure you don't fall asleep). For the essay, come up with a list of topics that you want to talk about. Topics that you are familiar with and can serve as an example for any question.

Math is a little more tricky. Use review books to learn what traps are usually laid for you to fall into and learn to avoid them. Otherwise, also figure out the basic types of questions that are tested.

For the reading, it's pretty obvious that studying vocab is the key, but for the passages, just read a lot.

Overall, take a lot of practice tests. I know they're really painful, but it does pay off.

Good luck!